PHPBenelux Conference 2016
29 - 30 Jan 2016 at Ter Elst

It was a really interesting talk. A little bit weird that stressed how difficult it actually is to use, instead of how easy. ;) That is normally not how talks work - but it was very honest.
The talk would probably be even more worth for a public of big-data analysts, maybe we should have focussed a little bit more on the API and the technical site - and less on the click and drag interface.

The thing that surprised me the most was how simple some of the available API's are, like the emotion- and face-detector.
It is really cool to know that you now can setup such a service that uses this without owing a multi-million company. ;)
I wouldn't have a spin-off talk about those API :)

very intresting. hope to get more advanced stuff like the plateforme configuration. but was intrestibg

Really good talk, it gave some great insight into what you should do and not do with Doctrine - and how simple caching can be with Doctrine.

I learned a lot and I personally thought it was the best talk so far that I attended. ;)

Very nice personal talk, with some moving talk about rolemodels.
It takes a great man to open himself up to so many strangers, very brave!!!

That said, it was pretty much the default keynote talk that can be summarized in "community is great, be a part of it". There was not that much in the talk to differentiate from that.
It is however a message worth repeating.

Down to earth and practical advice on handling old, legacy projects; without getting bogged down in details. Every such project is its own problem, with its own solutions; but the "war stories" gave some good approaches to identifying the best solutions for any given situation.

I already gave this feedback in person to you, but you asked me to post it here. ;)

I would cut back on the time spent on all the different versions of php 5. Just merge all those together in the cool star wars intro you have. We are here to hear about the future!
Great theming btw! :)

Then with the time freed explain why certain new features are actually useful - or not useful at all. :)

Options are GOOD, I notice that you sometimes look afraid of giving a subjective opinion on a topic - but is interesting to hear what you as an experience developer have to say about certain features.

The message simple, the presentation compelling - community matters because it helps us achieve what we as individuals cannot do on our own; yet community is made up of individuals like us. Great start to pump everybody up for the conference.

There where a lot of list, but not always a lot of explanation about each point.
Some ideas where quite interesting - like your point about "never using else again" but would have really benefited from a code example.
The more radical your idea, even if genious, the more examples it need. ;)
I think this would become great if you would maybe show some old code of you "that you hate", and then show how applying a rule like "no else" makes it better.

The talk was an eye opener for me - I realized the number of problems I can solve in my code using configuration tools like consul. I found at least 3 aspects of the systems I develop and maintain that I can improve using the presented tools and techniques. I'd just like to suggest using a larger font size for the code examples to make them more readable.

The food services example with the phpbenelux fries was very entertaining!

I was a bit surprised in the beginning because of the title vs context, but it turned out to be a really nice surprise!
Definitely going to try this out!
About the presentation itself how it was structured and presented I can say: nice job (Y)